Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor from another planet would surely have thought the presidential race was about prison furloughs, the death penalty for drug kingpins, mandatory Pledge of Allegiance and Dan Quayle's IQ. But on Election Day, these hot- button issues turned out to be largely irrelevant. Only 12% of the voters questioned by ABC News said that the Pledge, prison furloughs or Quayle were important to them; just 26% said they were concerned about the death penalty...
March 20: Bush, in his first foreign policy initiative, convenes the first International Conference of Prison Furloughs. In order to be able to bargain with the Soviets from a position of strength, Bush grants furloughs to all American convicted murderers the day before the conference...
Moreover, the fact that Morris's program caused no permanent damage to affected systems but instead served to expose yet another serious lapse in national computer security warrants careful consideration, rather than an impulsive call for a prison sentence...
...before kickoff. The scandal has reached into soccer's elite: heroes such as Sandor Sallai, a star player, and Kalman Meszoly, former manager of the national team, have been accused of cooking matches. Punishments for those found guilty could range from league suspensions to up to three years in prison...
...most decorated Filipino soldier of World War II. Technically that is true: while running for President in 1965 he nudged the Senate into retroactively awarding him some 20 medals for heroism, nine of them on the same day. Seagrave argues convincingly that Marcos' stirring tales of escaping from Japanese prison camps after being tortured, and then conducting reconnaissance raids for the Filipino resistance, are so much hogwash. In fact, an American commander of the underground in 1945 had ordered Marcos' arrest and execution as a collaborator...